Houghton, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m960 ft 295 m900 ft 275 m780 ft 240 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Houghton sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 650–930 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the southwest side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside city limits
Houghton spans about 480 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Houghton | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (CMX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,095 ft334 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Houghton County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 8,543 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,909 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1219° N, 88.5690° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Houghton County Memorial (CMX) 1,095 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49931
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Range1,130 ft
- Adams Township1,130 ft
- Franklin Township, Houghton County1,080 ft
- Quincy Township, Houghton County1,020 ft
- Atlantic Mine1,000 ft
- Dodgeville980 ft
- Hurontown920 ft
- Portage Township840 ft
- Hancock750 ft
- Houghton720 ft
- Dollar Bay620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,318th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Houghton County21st highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tolonen Hill1,500 ft
- Arcadian Hill1,230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.